The Meaning of Illness
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1995
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Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-3-7186-5207-5 (ISBN)
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-3-7186-5207-5 (ISBN)
This text examines the problem of defining the "meaning of illness", an interpretation developed within a society which can itself be studied and interpreted from without, from a variety of viewpoints depending on the academic discipline to which observation has been allocated.
This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model.
This book is based on collective research carried out during the 1980s. This edition appears ten years after the original publication in French. Since then we have experienced many changes. In the late decade, disciplines have changed, as have the societies being researched. The outbreak of AIDS in Africa and the industrial world is not the least of these major and influential changes. The reader today will be sensitive to these changes and this research maintains its value as an intellectual endeavour and a useful model.
Part 1 Body ailments, lineage language: biological order, social order - illness, a primary form of event, M. Auge; the need for meaning, the explanation of ill fortune - the Senufo, N. Sindzingre; sterility, aridity, drought - some invariants of symbolic thought, F. Heritier; history of diseases, history and disease - Africa, E. M'Bokolo. Part 2 From the right to illness to the duty to be healthy - the industrial society: Modern medicine and the quest for meaning - illness as a social signifier, C. Herzlich; the social implications of health - Paris, the Essonne and the Herault, J. Pierret; from healing to health - the neo-rural apocalyptic communities in France, D. Leger.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.11.1995 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Farb., s/w. Abb. |
| Verlagsort | Chur |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 600 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 3-7186-5207-2 / 3718652072 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-7186-5207-5 / 9783718652075 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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